The Charter
Private Plane Miami to Treasure Cay
A charter is not a ticket with more legroom. You are not buying a seat beside strangers, you are booking the aircraft itself. From that one decision follows everything else about the day: who boards, what hour it leaves, and which field it rolls to a stop on at the far end.
Treasure Cay sits on Great Abaco, 186 miles out from the city, and it has both a runway and its own border desk. That combination is rarer than it sounds. Plenty of Bahamian islands send you through a larger airport first and hand you a second flight or a boat. Here the aircraft goes straight in, which is the reason for having it to yourself in the first place.
What sits between the two ends belongs to us: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft and the crew, both border filings and the travel documents the Bahamas asks for before you leave Florida. Your party brings passports and a bag, and arrives shortly before the boarding time rather than a morning ahead of it.
It is the longest Bahamian crossing we fly out of the city and one of several small plane routes from Miami. The same aircraft carries on across the rest of the Bahamas.
Plan Your Treasure Cay Charter
How It Works
How a Private Plane Miami to Treasure Cay Charter Actually Works
Six things change the moment an aircraft belongs to one party for a day, and not one of them is a feature of the aircraft.
Plan Your Treasure Cay CharterThe Manifest
You write the passenger list and it closes when you send it
A charter carries the people you name. There is no seat map to be assigned around, no stranger in the row behind, and no reason to turn up early to secure anything.
It also means the party stays editable until shortly before the day: a name added, a name dropped, a grandchild who turns out to be coming after all. We refile the manifest and the flight is the same flight.
The Clock
Departure is a decision your party makes, not a listing you read
A scheduled service leaves when it leaves. A charter leaves when you say, inside daylight and inside what the crew may legally fly.
On a 186 mile crossing that is what keeps a single day workable at all: you can be over the water early enough to have a full afternoon on Great Abaco instead of arriving when it is half spent. If the morning slips, the aircraft waits, because it has nowhere else to be.
The Terminal
You walk out of a private terminal instead of through an airport
Both ends of this route are general aviation. In Florida you park, walk across to the aircraft and go, with the outbound filing already made from the departure point. At Treasure Cay the border desk sits in the terminal building beside where you stop rolling. There is no concourse to cross and nothing for your party to carry further than the door.
The Field
Which strip you land on is part of what you are booking
Great Abaco is long and it has more than one place to put an aircraft down. Treasure Cay is the northern one and Marsh Harbour lies roughly thirty miles south of it. Tell us which end of the island your day actually happens on and the flight is planned to it, rather than to whichever field a timetable happens to serve.
The Return
The way home from Treasure Cay belongs to you exactly as the way out does
A return leg on a scheduled service is an hour somebody else published. On a charter it is the hour you name in the morning, and it can move again while you are still on the island.
That is what turns a long crossing into a day rather than a schedule to work backwards from: lunch can run long, the boat can come in late, and the aircraft is still standing there.
The Weather
Weather is the one thing a charter cannot make more flexible
Everything else on this page bends. Weather does not, and we would rather move a day than fly it badly. You hear from us as early as we know, and the flight is rebooked rather than flown. Because the aircraft was held for your party and nobody else, moving it is a conversation and not a queue for the next available seat.
Departure Points
Departure Points for a Private Plane to Treasure Cay from Miami
The aircraft is booked for your party alone, so the departure point is yours to pick rather than something a timetable decides. These are the four we fly from around Miami. Select one to see exactly where it sits.
Miami Executive
Miami Executive Airport, TMB, Kendall
Kendall-Tamiami in the south west of the county, a general aviation field where the distance from the car to the aircraft is measured in steps. Nobody is waiting on a boarding call, because the only people on the flight are the ones who booked it. It is the shortest drive from the south and west of Miami-Dade.
Opa-locka Executive
Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport, OPF
The executive airport north west of the city, where your group waits in a private terminal and walks out when it is ready. Most island days leave from here, and the same building clears the return into the United States. There is no check-in queue, so the morning is built around your day.
Miami International
Miami International Airport, MIA
A pickup rather than a base, for a party already off an airline flight that wants the island leg from the same airport. Arranged per flight and confirmed with the operator before it is quoted. It is the one departure point that costs you time, because a commercial field runs to its own order.
Fort Lauderdale Executive
Fort Lauderdale Executive, FXE
Fort Lauderdale Executive, chosen when the group is north of Miami and the drive south would eat the hour the flight saves. The return clears in its own building there, so a day need not end where it began. The aircraft positions to meet you.
How to Charter
Booking a Private Plane Charter from Miami to Treasure Cay
Chartering an aircraft is not booking a seat. There are four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Plan Your Treasure Cay Charter- 01
Contact Us
Write to us on WhatsApp or by email. Send your dates, how many guests, where you are coming from and which end of Great Abaco you are heading for. Tell us the hour you would like to leave. A runway and a border desk at the far end mean we can usually work to it.
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Get Aircraft and Prices Back
We check what is free on your date and send back the aircraft that fit your party. Seats, baggage and flight time for each one. You are pricing the whole airframe rather than a headcount, so a smaller group costs what a full one costs.
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Confirm and Pay
You pick the aircraft, and we set the pickup point and the landing site. Then everything around the flight: catering on board, a car or a golf cart when you land, ground transport to the beach or south to Marsh Harbour. Flowers if the day is a particular one. You approve it, you pay, and your boarding time, departure point and everything included come back.
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Just Arrive 30 Minutes Before Departure
You will have no terminal and no queue. Just be there 30 minutes before. Then you take off and land where the day is happening.
On the Island
Where Flying Private Plane from Miami to Treasure Cay Puts You Down
The aircraft stops rolling at Treasure Cay, a few steps from the border desk, and from that moment nothing about the day is published anywhere. There is no return departure to work backwards from, so what follows is a menu rather than an itinerary.
These are the things parties on this route ask for, roughly in the order they ask for them.
Plan Your Treasure Cay CharterClearing In Where You Stop Rolling
Treasure CayComing into the country is the one fixed point of the day, and on Great Abaco it happens in the building beside the apron. The Bahamian customs authority lists Treasure Cay among its ports of entry, so there is no leg before the leg you wanted. What that buys a private party on a 186 mile crossing is the middle of the day.
A flight that has to clear somewhere else first spends an hour and a landing on it, and an hour is what separates a day out from an overnight. Here the filing is made before you leave Florida, so the walk from the aircraft to the far side of the desk is usually a matter of minutes.
After that the island is yours until you say otherwise. Nobody is holding a return time over your party.
The Beach, Seven Miles from the Field
Treasure Cay Beach
Treasure Cay Beach is the reason most parties come, a long curve of pale sand running about three and a half miles with shallow water in front of it. It lies roughly seven miles from the field, which is a short drive and not a journey. The difference a charter makes here is not the beach, it is the afternoon on it.
A scheduled return sets the moment the towels come up. Yours does not exist yet, so the swim that was going to be the last one need not be. Ask for ground transport at the enquiry and a car or a cart is waiting when the door opens.
Green Turtle Cay When the Ferry Suits You
The Crossing
Green Turtle Cay lies off the coast north of Treasure Cay and the way over is a small ferry from the dock. New Plymouth on the far side is the settlement people go for, and the crossing is minutes rather than a passage. This is the step where a private schedule shows itself.
A group tied to a published return works backwards from it all day and comes back across early to be safe. A chartered aircraft imposes no such clock: you cross when you want to, stay as long as the afternoon earns, and come back when you are finished. What there is to do once you are over there belongs on the Treasure Cay destination page rather than here.
Hope Town and Elbow Cay in the Same Day
South of the Field
Elbow Cay lies off the southern end of Great Abaco and Hope Town sits on it, gathered around a harbour with a striped lighthouse standing over the entrance. It is the picture most people already have of the Abacos before they get here.
It is also the part of the island chain a fixed return quietly rules out. Getting down there and back is a drive and a boat, and a party watching a published departure usually decides it is too much for one day.
With your own aircraft the arithmetic changes: the only question is what time you want to be back at the terminal, and that is a question you answer yourself. A day built around lunch somewhere specific is a fly and dine day, and anything more particular than that is a custom request we would rather hear early than well.
A Tee Time Set Around the Departure
Golf and the Marina
Treasure Cay has a golf course and a marina, and between them they account for a good share of the parties who fly out here rather than sail. Both work better when the hour of the flight bends to them instead of the other way round.
A tee time is a fixed appointment, and slotting a round into a day framed by somebody else's timetable usually means playing against the clock. On a charter the departure is set after the tee time, not before it. The same holds for a boat booked out of the marina for the morning: the aircraft waits for the boat, because it has nowhere else to be.
Man-O-War and Great Guana, a Whole Day
Two More Cays
Man-O-War Cay and Great Guana Cay both lie off the eastern side of Great Abaco and both come up when a party is here for the water rather than for a hotel. Man-O-War is the boatbuilding cay and it is quiet; Great Guana carries the long ocean beach and the bar everybody has heard of.
Neither is a short errand, and that is the point of mentioning them on this page. They are afternoons, and an afternoon only exists if the evening is still open. Say at the enquiry that the day includes a boat and the flight is planned around it rather than against it.
The Whole Payload Is Your Trade
Weighed, Not Counted
When one party has the aircraft, what goes in the back becomes a conversation about weight rather than a rule about how many bags each person may bring. On this route that is a practical difference more than a philosophical one.
Golf clubs, rods, a cooler for the boat, a case of something for the house, the pram nobody wants to hire again: all of it travels, within the payload for the aircraft on the day. Because nobody else is aboard, the trade is between your own passengers and your own load, and where it falls is your call. The baggage guidance sets out how that works.
Anything larger than luggage is a different service to the same field, and that is island logistics rather than a charter with extra bags.
Carrying On Down the Chain
Your Itinerary
Treasure Cay is often the first stop rather than the whole trip, and clearing in here is what makes that simple: once your party is through the desk on Great Abaco, every leg after it is domestic. An aircraft that belongs to you for the day can string those legs together in whatever order suits.
Grand Bahama, Nassau, Harbour Island, Andros and Staniel Cay and the Exumas all take the same type, and none of them sends you back to a hub first.
That is the shape of an island hopping day or a longer Bahamas day; a single island and home again is a Treasure Cay getaway day trip. The full list is on the Bahamas destinations page.
Ready When You Are
Ready to Book a Private Plane Charter to Treasure Cay from Miami?
Send the date and the number of guests. You get the aircraft that are free, what each one costs and the hour it can leave, and nothing is held until you say so.
Add-Ons
Private Plane to Treasure Cay Add-Ons
Tell us which of these you want when you send your dates and they come back priced with the aircraft.
In Detail
Private Plane Charter Miami to Treasure Cay: One Party, One Aircraft, One Border Desk
Everything above is the day. What follows is the detail behind it: who is on board, who files the paperwork, why the aircraft crosses the 186 miles in one go, and how late the hour can still move on a flight to the Bahamas.
Private Plane Miami to Treasure Cay: Flying Low Over the Reef and the Flats
Room enough and a window each on a Treasure Cay private plane
The crossing is not dead time between two airports. The cabin is yours for it, so what is below is part of the day rather than something to sit through. The water in between runs about 162 nautical miles and almost none of it has anything on it. A party going out to Great Abaco is almost always travelling together for a reason: a family with a house on the beach, four couples who took one villa between them, a crew joining a yacht at the marina. What sits between the two ends belongs to us: the departure point in Miami, the aircraft and the crew, both border filings and the travel documents the Bahamas asks for before you leave Florida. At the far end the desk is in the terminal building at Treasure Cay, which is the detail that keeps a day trip a day trip. The cabin belongs to your party and nobody else, so the crossing is yours to spend as you like. what travels with you is arranged before you board.
Private Plane to Treasure Cay from Miami: You Decide the Departure Time
Your hour, your names and a private plane to Treasure Cay
Nobody hands you a timetable on a charter. The day is built around the hour you name. You name the hour you want to lift off, the hour you want to be standing on Treasure Cay and which water in the city suits your morning. The aircraft belongs to your party for the day, so all three are your decision rather than a departure somebody else set, and a change the week before is a message to us. Half an hour before the lift-off is the whole of the check-in. Your party walks from the car to the aircraft, the bags go on in front of you, and the list for that flight carries your names and nobody else's. Nothing about the morning waits on a stranger. Because the aircraft is yours, the field it leaves from is a choice rather than a given. And the crossing is a reason in itself. The windows are deep and the aircraft crosses low, so there is room for everybody to sit and watch the water change instead of taking turns at one of them.
Private Plane Charter from Miami to Treasure Cay: The Crew Files Both Borders, You Carry a Passport
Passports are all your party carries on a Treasure Cay crossing
A private plane from Miami to Treasure Cay crosses an international border twice in a day. Entry into the Bahamas asks for a declaration filed from Florida, clearance at a port of entry on arrival and a US return filed before you leave, which is what sets where you may land coming home. Passports for everyone, children included, per the travel documents guidance. What may travel sits in the baggage guidance. That same filing sets where you land coming home: a return from the islands clears at None, so a day that began on the water finishes on a ramp and a departure moved by weather runs under the weather and delays policy. If the party changes before the flight, the crew refiles. A name added, a name dropped: that is a message to us rather than a problem for you.
Flying Private Plane from Miami to Treasure Cay: Milestone Days and Bahamas Weekends
A day trip, a weekend or something to celebrate on Treasure Cay
A private private plane from Miami to Treasure Cay is booked when the day is worth marking: a birthday, a proposal, a graduation, a weekend away with the people who matter. The flight is short enough that the occasion, not the travelling, is what the day is about. That is what a private plane from Miami to Treasure Cay is for. A weekend where ten people who all wanted to be together actually are, on the way out and on the way home, instead of arriving in threes across a whole afternoon. We hold the aircraft, the hour and the extras you asked for; the rest is yours. Some parties fly over for the day and are home the same evening. Others stay on and book the return for the day they want. Both are the same charter, and the whole group travels together on one booking. If there is something to celebrate, say so when you book: catering, a private chef, premium beverages and flowers travel with you. Everything is in place before you board in Miami.
Questions
Private Plane Miami to Treasure Cay: Questions Answered
What does chartering a private plane to Treasure Cay actually include?
The aircraft and the crew for your party, both border filings, and the ground arrangements you ask for at either end. You are booking the airframe rather than seats on it, so the price covers the flight whether four people travel or eight. Catering, a car or a golf cart on arrival and onward transport are added when you ask for them and come back priced alongside the aircraft.
Can we choose our own departure time?
Yes, within daylight and within what the crew is allowed to fly. That is the main thing a charter buys you on this route. The hour is set when you confirm and can still be moved afterwards if your day changes, because the aircraft is not going anywhere else and there are no other passengers to inconvenience.
On a crossing of 186 miles that matters more than on a short hop: an early departure is what turns Treasure Cay into a day rather than a weekend. Tell us the hour you actually want rather than the one you assume is on offer.
Is anyone else on the private plane?
No. A charter carries the people you name and nobody else. There is no seat assignment, no other party sharing the cabin, and no risk of the flight leaving without part of your group because a connection did not hold. It also means the passenger list can change up to shortly before departure: a name added or dropped is a refiling on our side rather than a rebooking on yours.
Do we have to connect through Nassau to reach Treasure Cay?
No. Treasure Cay has its own runway and its own border desk, so the aircraft flies straight there and clears in where it lands. Connecting through a larger airport is what scheduled travel to the out islands usually requires, and it is the step a private charter removes.
The same holds afterwards: once you are cleared in on Great Abaco, an onward leg to another island is domestic and does not send you back to a hub first.
Do I need a passport for Treasure Cay?
Yes, for every passenger including children. The Bahamas is a different country and a private aircraft does not change that. We take the passport details once at the enquiry and file for both sides before departure. The travel documents page lists what each passenger hands over and by when.
How early do we need to be at the airport?
About thirty minutes. There is no terminal to cross and no queue to join at either end, because both ends of this route are general aviation. You park, walk to the aircraft and go. The outbound border filing is already made from our side before you arrive, so there is nothing to hand in and nothing to print.
Can we land at Marsh Harbour instead?
Yes, and on a charter that is simply a line in the enquiry rather than a different booking. Marsh Harbour sits roughly thirty miles south of Treasure Cay, so which field suits you depends on where the day happens. Tell us the address you are heading for and we plan the flight to the nearer one.
Can we fly on to another island the same day?
Often yes. Once the aircraft is yours it can carry on down the chain instead of returning to a hub, and Great Harbour Cay, Walker's Cay and Sandy Point take the same type. Send the whole itinerary and it comes back as one day.
What if the weather turns on the day?
The day moves. Weather is the one thing a charter does not make flexible, and we would rather move a flight than fly it badly. You are told as early as we know, and the aircraft is rebooked to a date that works for your party. Because it was held for you and nobody else, moving it is a conversation rather than a queue for the next available seat.
Is a private charter cheaper than scheduled flights for a group?
It depends on the size of the party and what the day is worth to you. The aircraft costs the same whether it is full or not, so the cost per person falls as the group grows, and a party of six or eight is usually where the comparison turns.
What never shows up in a fare comparison is the hour you get back at each end of a long crossing. Send the date and the headcount and you get real numbers rather than an estimate.
Can the private plane collect us from a marina or a hotel dock?
Not on wheels. A private plane runs airport to airport. If the pickup needs to be a marina, a hotel dock or a beach, the same day runs on a seaplane instead and we can collect you there.
How do we start?
Send the date, the number of guests, where you are leaving from and the hour you would like. You get back the aircraft that are free, what each one costs, the boarding time and what is included, and nothing is held until you say so.
If the day has anything else in it, a golf cart at the terminal or a table held at the marina, say so at the same time and it comes back priced alongside the aircraft.
Can I bring a pet on a private plane charter?
Yes, pets travel in the cabin with you. The one thing we ask is that you tell us at the enquiry, with the type of animal and its weight, so the seating and the load plan are right from the start.
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